Food spread base



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No lira. Application 4, 193%, Serial No. 2&5386

The .present invention relates to a base for making a spread for food such as bread, cake, and other similar articles of food, and as for shortening for bamng andfrying, and the art of producing such a base. This application is a.

continuation-in-part of our co-pending applicaflowing liquid of medium viscosity in the form of a fiuid'emulsion having aqueous and oleaginous components and containing sumcient salt to produce a palatable'taste in the desired final product. Such a base in accordance with the present invention is preferably characterized by the following qualifications:

1. It should be capable of ready emulsifiability with a fat in solid or non-flowing condition, such as shortenings in use today, and r 2. It should be capable of carrying up to approximately twenty-three per cent of an electrolyte such as common salt in solution without breaking for extending periods of time.

With regard to the first qualification, it is generally known that an aqueous phase, and especially an aqueous phase carrying an electrolyte such assodium chloride or common salt in such concentration in solution, cannot be readily dispersed in a fat in a solid or non-flowing condition. p Also, it is a matter of common knowledge that often, in the breaking of undesirable industrial emulsions, the addition of common salt is resorted to, which, when present in suilicient concentration, salts out the stabilizing film surrounding the emulsion globules. The general principle underlying salting out of emulsions is that the added re-agent must be soluble in the external phase or more easily wetted by it so as to be able to influence the properties of the stabilizing iiilm. Then by the addition of the suitable electrolyte, the charge on the water globule is neutralized and coalescence results.

(or. oc -r23) These facts are noteworthy in view of the fact that the base to which we have reference carries in the emulsion in a liquid and free flowing condition up to approximately twenty-three per cent common salt without breaking for extended 5 1 periods of time.

We have discovered that both of these requisites, namely, ready emulsifiability with fat or shortening in solid or non-flowing condition and ability to carry approm'mately twenty-three per cent sodium chloride or common salt in emulsion, can be fulfilled by the use of an oleaginous phase and stabilization of the; ensuing emulsion with a relatively small percentage of water soluble vegetable gum.

The incorporation of an oil phase, that is, the

preparation of an emulsion in the base itself, enhances the ready dispersion of the base in a solid or non-flowing fat or shortening even when the amount'oi oil used in the base emulsion is 0 verylow, for example, under ten per cent. Any

of the edible animal or vegetable fats commonly used such as corn, cotton, soya, etc., may be employed in the preparation of the emulsion.

However, no such emulsion of liquid oil and water in the proportions mentioned is, at present and to our howledga'pcssible in the pres-. ence of substantially twenty-three per cent electrolyte such as sodium chloride. We have found that this emulsion, even while containing such high percentages of electrolyte, can be sta- A bilized by the addition of a relatively small percentage of an hydrophilio colloid such as a water soluble vegetable The disperse. or oleaginous phase of the emulsion can be composed of relatively small percentages of i w or vegetable triglycerides or fatty acid esters of polyhydroxy alchhols as monostearine or diglycol stearate, or aminophosphatides, as lecithin, or sulfonated (sulfated) higher alcohols, or es thereof, in place of animal or vegetable triglycerides, without departing from the invention.

The agents which may be emplpyed in the stabilization of the emulsion containing salt belong to the group of higher carbohydrates or water soluble vegetable gums having theproperties of hydrophilic colloids and among which are included tragacanthan incision product from Asiatic low spiny s or the'genus Astralgus, and

Water soluble vegetable gum or carbotragon obtained by extraction of the endosperm of the carob. bean (Ceratonia ailiqua) and Karaya gum, but not including starches as corn. beet, rice, or the like.

In the preparation of the base mix, we have found that the proportions of the ingredients entering into the novel base may vary within the following approximate limits:

Per cent Oleaginous or disperse phase .5-15 Salt '1.5-2s.o Moisture (water or milk) 63.3-85.6

hydrate '.35 2.0

The composition of the finished product may vary within substantially the following limits:

Percent Fat 000-85 Salt .5- 4 Moisture 11.0-40

As an illustrative example, excellent results havebeen secured by preparing the novel base of the following ingredients and in substantially the following proportions:

Percent Fat or vegetable oil 7.9 Salt 13.2 Moistur 78.4

Per cent Fat- '78.! Salt v 2.8 Moisture 18.0 Water soluble vegetable gum or carbohydrate (ppt. by 8.10.)

If a final product lower in fat content were desired as, for example- Per cent Fat 60 Salt 3 Moisture 31' a base mix of approximately the following com position is preferably employed:

Per cent Fat or vegetable oil 6.1 Salt 7.5 Moisture 85.6

Water soluble vegetable gum or carbohydrate .80

and approximately eleven ounces of shortening used per substantially five ounces of the base.

If a finished product having higher fatty content is desired, say, of approximately the following percentage composition:

Per cent Fat 85.0 Salt 3.5 Moisture- 11.5 100.0

' depending upon then the base is preferably composed substantially as follows:

*Per cent Fat or vegetable oil 12.4 Salt 23.0 Moisture 63.8

Water soluble vegetable gum or carbohydrate and three ounces of this base, when mixed with eleven ounces of a fat or shortening, forms a resultant product or spread of delicious fiavor and high food value. I, V I

As an illustrative example of a base in which an oleaginous substance, containing more hydrophilic groups than the triglycerides of the above examples, constitutes the oil phase of the emulsion, we have secured excellent results by the use of the following ingredients in substantially the following proportions:

Per cent Diglycol stearate 1.33

Salt 14.00

Moisture 84.00 Water soluble vegetable gum or carbohydrate .67

It will be appreciated from the above disclosure, that the salt varies in general inversely as the amount of base added.

The term "fat" is generically used herein and comprehends Vegetable oils and animal fats suitable for the purpose.

The moisture content is determined by such factors as composition of the desired final product and the term moisture is used to comprehend either water or milk.

The oleaginous or disperse phase may vary in amount between approximately .5% and 15.0%. the hydrophilic characteristics of the particular lipin employed. This 011 phase is high in the'case triglycerides are employed and low when more water soluble substances such as diglycerides are used. 1

The proportion of hydrophilic colloid, consisting of higher carbohydrates or water soluble gum, fluctuates between approximately 35% and 2%, the concentration being influenced by the amount of electrolyte which the base must carry in solution.

To the above examples may be added the desired flavoring substances, coloring matter and vitamin concentrates, such as vitamin A and/or D.

While we have given by way of illustration certain rather specific examples and approximate and tragacanth for stabilizing the resultant emulsion, said ingredients being in approximately content of the base emulsion I I adeaeei the relative proportions of 63.3% to 85.6% of the aqueous phase, .5% to 15% of the disperse phase, 7.5% to 23% of salt and 35% to 2% of the water soluble gum.

2. A stable, fluid i'ood spread base for use in producing an edible food product when mixed with a fat in solid or non-flowing condition, comprising an intimate mixture of an aqueous phase, an oleaginous phase for facilitating admixture with the solid or non-flowing fat, salt and a water soluble vegetable gum of the class consisting 01. tragon and tragacanth in approximately the relative proportions of 63.3% to 85.6% of the aqueous phase, .5% to 15% of the oleaginous 

